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@actualizing25 you are noticing something. However, I will say that what you're calling "the path of understanding" is superior to "the path of enlightenment". Because in the latter people are mindlessly adopting someone else's, or some tradition's, formula or method for finding truth. Unless you are inherently detached from the mythologies and beliefs which become inherent to many of these traditions you can absorb yourself in, you'll be deluded. That said, learn from them, and if there's a vast gold mine, then stay in that gold mine as is neccesary. But remember, this tradition and its concepts isn't the only place or step by any means.

How can I tangibly understand science as being limited when in my ordinary life, physics is the reason my phone or car works? If I crash my car badly enough, and injure my physical body badly enough, I'll die. Biology is the reason I'm able to exist as this organism as I am right now. You yourself acknowledge the biology of psychedelics and brain chemistry, and how psychedelics are that critical to your teachings. Is the logical explanation that, science as I see it simply an occurrence within God/nothingness? And that there's no contradiction? It's just that "science" and different mathematical formulas aren't the crux of reality, but rather it is a relative thing compared to the direct consciousness of Nothingness which this is all happening within?

Wow this was absolutely beautiful. Time to face my first enemy tomorrow, when I tell my mother the truth about my religious beliefs. Edit: The deed has been done.

Anime gym music banger

@Someone here

@moda__ Play a single player game. Like witcher 3.

@Chi_ The concept of this video is hilarious. I couldn't have asked for a more funny crossover. This is what's lovely about Sadhguru's style. He can communicate with just about anyone. Even if I don't think he's the best teacher if you're serious about spiritual work.

I've found snippets and clips of his lectures on YouTube. I saw that on his official website, his full lectures are essentially completely held secret by a ludicrously high pay wall. With there being hundreds of lectures, but each lecture being twice as expensive as one of his books. Although there is a book form of the content in all his lectures, which just means that it's the audio format they protect. So I'm now thinking about books. There are two which stick out to me from the get go. His "Letting go: the pathway to surrender", and his "Healing and Recovery" book for various illnesses. I'll perhaps go with these two for now. David Hawkins is an amazing sage, I'm a little apprehensive about his model and use of numbers for levels of consciousness. I've heard these things about muscle testing and am a bit apprehensive to say the least. But that said. Other books I've thought about are power vs force, truth vs falsehood and devotional non-duality. Not sure to what extent those first two books just mentioned overlap in material.

@Leo Gura the seeing of things as a 'mental activity' of God's mind...or the seeing of things as being created... Maybe this is outside the realm of most of what I've experienced. With my peak states being more about no-self and isness rather than this process called imagination or creation. Because to my logical mind, creation sounds like an imposition on is-ness. Where the word implies a cause and an effect, an if and a then. A becoming, rather than a being....... This chain of thought is going nowhere, scrapped.

@Leo Gura alright thanks

@Leo Gura What's the significance of the word imaginary? That it's fictitious? Or is it a reference seeing the process of creation being done? Or something else?

@Parththakkar12 it is the "doomer" meme. This nihilism and apathy permeates the atmosphere in the memes and Internet communication of so many young people. I think the doomer meme is one of the best representations of what's being talked about. It's in the rick and morty meme. In the "gamers vs society" and "joker" memes. It's also in incels and red pill. "coomer" meme, dopamine instant gratification. Can't you feel it all being and coming together?

@Someone here It's intention and effort. In my experience the method doesn't really matter. We all know what needs to be done but we don't do it. Your method doesn't matter. The universe will set down the keys you really need in front of you. My most recent mystical experience came in the form of a dream last night. In my dream, I was captured by terrorists after being shot. And I was scared I could die at any moment. And the genuine fear of death, it shocked me into intense gratitude and appreciation for life and the present moment. So within the dream I entered a mystical state. Knowing that life can be taken away just like that. And I woke up feeling refreshed with a good day. ---- I hesitate to give this speculation, but I shall anyway. It feels as though any method only unlocks and unleashes whatever you yourself "built up" and "accumulated". However the effort can be done and built up, ready to be unleashed, in doing the method as well. I haven't quite made sense of it. This is my experience with methods of meditation and kundalini yoga. Albeit I'm no regular guy with these things as of late.

The only thing I get pissed about with Google is when I'm searching for information on a topic and I'm met with a brick wall of search results consisting of pop journalism and opinion pieces. To be able to sift through the garbage quickly, it's a skill to have and I need to develop.

@Thestarguitarist14 yeah season 1 of Psycho Pass is the gold. Makishima made the series. Season 2 had 1 or 2 moments but not the same at all. I haven't seen S3

Evangelion is THE non-duality anime imo. For a philosophical anime I'd say Psycho Pass is my favourite.

Yeah @mandyjw makes a good point that you should think about what you should eat rather than thinking about what you shouldn't eat. Pursuing healthy food. Whether you should beat the pig or hug the pig or both, I don't know. I'm still figuring myself out.

@Lyubov Nah I'm exactly the same bro. I don't play multiplayer games as much online anymore but whenever I did I easily got salty (not salty from regular shooters, just salty in games I felt mastery and competence in) I used to play super smash bros a lot competitively and that would get me salty. I would throw my controller hard on the mattress or sofa. Gears of War also got me salty. I never played chess much, but that game did make me a bit of a sore loser. Not sure quite why. Superimposing ideals on my experience that become the condition for happiness.

@Pouya I think I have a boomer mindset about this forum. I have a more fond feeling towards my memory of this forum than towards this forum (thinking 2018-2019). I interpret/feel the vibe/energy here as being more stagnant. But the cause of that I don't know. Could just be me. I project/interpret things as having been more visceral and "real" before, more lively. For some reason I remember some of them older members who don't post much anymore as being bold in speech, it was fun.

@Rasheed none particularly imo. You can jump around from "lower pleasure" to "higher pleasure" in terms of choice of intoxicants, but the differences are superficial and you find yourself having the same problems over and over again.

The tradition of koans and etc

Recently got the workbook that instead of the main text, since it was on Leo's booklist. In this book you're going through one "lesson" a day, and applying it. It'll give you an idea and you are to apply that idea to what you see during the day. e.g. here's lesson 1 https://acim.org/workbook/lesson-1/ I just find this method of applying these conceptual ideas weird. I'm giving it a go regardless. But the book says that even if you disagree with a lesson or your mind actively resists it, merely applying it even if you don't accept it is fine. The book says it isn't asking you to accept these things and just believe them, but the way these exercises are structured seems to contradict that. Thoughts? At the end of the day it comes down to your mindset and the relationship you create with a given idea. Any concept or idea is as dogmatic or liberating as you make it. Your relation with it is what characterises it rather than the it itself. Regardless though, I am interested to see if anyone here has done these workbook exercises and how its worked with them. I think I just naturally feel a bit weird since I'm usually against " woo woo" stuff and just put up resistance. And it makes me feel weird and uneasy. I've always been the sort of person who disliked affirmations or cheesy things. Maybe its a sign the demonic entities in me are shrieking upon being doused with holy water. When I can simply use the lessons presented as alternate perspectives or as ideas which negate a previously held idea. Good teachings give you concepts which negate your currently held concepts.

@arlin It could be an illusion. A distinction between consciousness and not-consciousness has been made.

Good chart, it's a little misleading with the yellow category though. I think a lot of people can fall short of what's called here "the antisemitic point of no return" without being "dangerous to yourself and others". 9/11 conspiracy theories and fake moon landing ( which is in the 4th box) are not on the same tier as people who think 5G is causing Covid, for example. The latter being an extremely severe violation of epistemology.